Quotes About Domestic workers

An employee who wants to know as how much a private sector business employer thinks about the workforce welfare, should just visualize oneself to be a house owner and see own attitude & behaviour towards the domestic workers.

Women are the majority of immigrants yet the minority of immigrant employment visas; immigrant and native born women who work in the service arena - such as domestic workers - are not valued for their work, making pennies on the dollar compared to male counterparts; and, women are disproportionately affected by family reunification policies.

Domestic workers allow many people with disabilities to maintain independent, productive lives and live in their own homes - not in institutions.

Today the nanas have become so emancipated that the lords of their domains prefer to hire illegal immigrants from Peru, whom they can mistreat as badly as they used to their Chilean servant girls.

The federal government was entirely complicit. When President Roosevelt passed the Social Security Act of 1935, Southern conservatives and their Northern Republican allies forced the New Deal legislation to exclude domestic workers and farmworkers from all of its employment provisions. That shielded

My nan was a nursery maid. Most people weren't in big houses. They were maids of all work.

Images of African Americans as bad mothers, ineffective mothers, and matriarchs...conceal and justify the difficult conditions in which they work and raise children. But oddly enough, these same women, who are said to run amok in their own communities, are thought to be entirely competent at parenting the children of the elite-as mammies during slavery, as domestic workers during segregation, or as child care workers today.

One thing I've learned, in the face of all kinds of indignities, domestic workers take so much pride in their work and love the children they care for.